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Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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lugnet.western
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:32:54 GMT
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In lugnet.western, Dave Schuler writes:
> The U.S. is a culture which, idiotic though it be, recently castigated a
> public figure for using "niggardly" in a speech! Does anyone seriously
> believe there wouldn't be an almighty uproar if slaves weren't *somehow*
> represented in a Civil War Lego series? Or at least if their absence weren't
> addressed in some way? That, I think, and the resultant effect on market
> success, would be a deciding factor in the use or non-use of the Civil War as
> a theme.
Personally, it seems to me that there would be an uproar if slaves *were*
included in a Civil War theme. I remember a lot of very heated debates in an
otherwise calm high school American History class when we discussed the
topic of slavery and the American Civil War. It was like deja vu four years
later when I encountered it in college. Slavery is still a very touchy
subject here, in the United States, one-hundred years after the fact.
-Jonathan
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 | | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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| In lugnet.western, John Rudy and others write: (...) Maybe one night when my insomnia's acting up! 8^) The U.S. is a culture which, idiotic though it be, recently castigated a public figure for using "niggardly" in a speech! Does anyone seriously (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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